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Nonfiction Common Core Compare and Contrast Worksheets

Read about the history of the Winchester Mystery House, and then answer some comprehension questions.

Winchester Mystery House

Explore the physics at play in roller coasters with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet!

Informational Reading Comprehension: Physics at Play: Roller Coasters

Do your students know the difference between Veterans Day, Memorial Day, and Labor Day? This reading comprehension worksheet will teach them about the similarities and differences of the holidays. First, they&rsquo;ll read a passage that provides facts ab

Compare and Contrast: Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Veterans Day

Introduce students to some wild and weird types of lightning with this fascinating reading comprehension worksheet!

Extended Informational Reading Comprehension: Weird, Wild Weather: Lightning 

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

Compare and Contrast: Platypus

What type of change will you get? Use this resource with your students to compare and contrast chemical and physical reactions.

Compare and Contrast: Chemical and Physical Changes

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

Transition Words for Comparing & Contrasting

Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.

Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Stories: Extinct Birds

Learn about what makes certain elements cooler than others in this chemistry-based informational reading passage!&nbsp;

Extended Informational Reading Comprehension: Extraordinary Elements

Use this resource with your students to get them making connections between two nonfiction texts on the same topic. They will use a Venn diagram to organize the similarities and differences.

Compare and Contrast Whales

Practice comparing two nonfiction texts in this reading comprehension worksheet!&nbsp;

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: The Influence of Water

Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Nonfiction Text Features Checklist

Use this graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast information from different sources of their choosing while researching a relevant topic.

Compare and Contrast Information From Different Sources

Use this two-page graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast informational narratives from two different genres.

Comparing and Contrasting in Nonfiction: Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir

Use these questions to encourage critical thinking and support literacy development as students read the first few diary entries of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #1 

Students will compare two informational texts on the same topic using a Venn diagram.

Compare & Contrast Nonfiction Texts: The Underground Railroad

During this reading exercise, students will work in small groups to look at various sample passages and sort them based on firsthand or secondhand accounts.

Firsthand or Secondhand Account?

Students read short biographies of pilot Bessie Coleman and astronaut Mae Jemison, each a pioneer in her field. They then practice using a Venn diagram to compare the lives and accomplishments of each woman.

Making Comparisons with a Venn Diagram: Bessie Coleman and Mae Jemison

This informative and inspiring worksheet will have your students compare and contrast two athletes who have been instrumental in changing the world of women’s sports!

Compare and Contrast: Awesome Athletes!

Want to get your kids thinking critically about what they're reading? This fruit-themed Venn diagram alternative will help students to compare and contrast two topics or books during or after reading nonfiction texts.

Fruity Compare & Contrast

Using this Venn diagram, young readers will compare and contrast two thematically similar works of nonfiction.

Venn Diagram: Same Topic, Different Information

In the worksheet The History of African American Spirituals, children read about how African Americans used spirituals during different moments in history, starting from their enslavement to the civil rights movement.

The History of African American Spirituals

Use this handy genre guide to teach students about 14 different genres!

Genre Guide & Reading Challenge

Students practice comparing and contrasting two versions of the same piece of text—written and audio/visual—with this graphic organizer!

Compare and Contrast Written vs. Audio/Visual Forms of a Text

With this resource, give your students practice comparing and contrasting the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: The Influence of the Sun

Encourage critical thinking with this discussion guide as students read the next set of Anne&rsquo;s diary entries in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #3 

Get to know nonfiction text features! Use this resource with your class to compare nonfiction text features for same-topic selections. This resource goes along with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Side-By-Side Nonfiction Text Features 

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first chapters of A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

Book Study: A Night to Remember: Discussion Guide #1

After reading&nbsp;The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba, students compare the movie adaptation to the written story.

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